How Could My Temple Experience Be Any Better?

It can be difficult to imagine something as significant as temple worship being any more meaningful than it already is. But that is the promise to those who search out information on their own ancestors and receive the saving ordinances of the temple on their behalf.

“When you’re already going to the temple, … you are already receiving blessings,” says Julene Davidson, a family history consultant in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA. “So sometimes it’s hard to see how it can be so much better.”

Learn below how your temple experience can be even better.

Watch how knowing the people for whom you are doing the temple work can make your experience more significant. Download

Searching out our deceased family members and receiving the ordinances of salvation on their behalf is one way the Lord allows us to participate in His work, making us like Him, saviors on mount Zion and the saviors of men (see Obadiah 1:21 and D&C 103:9–10).

Watch President Henry B. Eyring teach how we can participate in the salvation of our ancestors. Download

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“Any work you do in the temple is time well spent, but receiving ordinances vicariously for one of your own ancestors will make the time in the temple more sacred, and even greater blessings will be received.”